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论文类型：期刊论文

发表时间：2008-11-04

发表刊物：SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

收录刊物：SCIE、EI、Scopus

卷号：148

期号：1

页面范围：75-82

ISSN号：0924-4247

关键字：Navigation; Polarization vision; Angle algorithm; Performance test

摘要：Navigation technology is an essential ability for the survival and development of animal and human. Navigation sensor plays a key role in exploration, emergency, precision-guided weapons, ship and aircraft navigation and satellites positioning system. The desert ant Cataglyphis is able to explore its desert habitat for hundreds of meters while foraging and return back to its nest precisely and on a straight line. For deriving direction information, this animal uses the pattern of polarized light in the sky that arises due to scattering of sunlight in the atmosphere. The polarization sensitivity mechanisms of the ant's compound eye are analyzed. The work principle of the sensor is discussed. A novel bionic navigation sensor is constructed. And the optic electric structure and the circuits are given. A performance test platform is designed and set up. The character of the dark field and uniform light field are investigated, the static performance about sensitivity, precision are tested in detail. And the non-linearity error is less than 0.0853% FSO (full-scale output), and the repeatability error with 0.0233% FSO is achieved. The outdoor experiment is performed under different skylight condition. And the worst angle output error within +/- 0.2 degrees is achieved. The results indicate the novel navigation sensor is with high precision and robustness. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.